When Homer stubs his toe or bumps his elbow, the pain is always piercing but Homer’s a pious man so swearing isn’t for him.

A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies. Donal Mahoney

The longer I live the greater Mar… compared with those who have tried… The man had integrity, guts, ideas… It was heartbreaking in the Sixti… filled with hope for change in Ame…

We do our best to avoid the Zika Virus. We smack mosquitoes and avoid tanned folks just back from two weeks in the tropics.

I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.

In a very crowded bar Fred decides he must tell this fellow something important so he whispers

He wants to be fair to both sides because there’s an election coming soon so he tells his side every day

Praise for Him coming from us is like the bark of a terrier at the foot of his master

Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...

She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she

She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.

Jill’s assignment as a new reporter was to interview an old bell ringer standing next to a red kettle outside a Walmart. Her editor had told her the man has been ringing the bell every ...

America has had presidents who will be remembered as much for what they said as for what they did. Americans will never forget

Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because

The question isn’t why your little world is suddenly going to hell. The question is what can you do about